This one is such an amazing complete vision. It's cartoon come to life.
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I was only a child when I learned a simple question to ask myself if something was right. What would the world/country/system be like if everyone did this? Would it make a better or worse system?
But I suppose asking that and caring about the answer would mean you'd have to care about something than yourself.
Do you return your shopping cart?
Insurance has effects on prices that health providers charge. I wonder if that ICU visit would be as expensive if there was no game to play with insurance and they would be guaranteed to be paid. If I (a for profit corp) knew X% of my customers would only end up paying 25% of the price or less, likely after collections and/or insurance paid some, I'd probably jack my price up, too.
The amount of practical effects used to make this is always impressive, especially compared to today's green screens. I was amazed to see that they made a scale section of future NYC for scenes. And all the costumes? So varied, imaginative, and amazing. One of my favorites for sure
Wow that's really cool looking. I thought they were all renders but apparently they had a couple trucks at the 2023 Seoul auto show
Kind of the opposite of the Titan submersible regarding pressure differential. The inside of the Hyperloop pods are kept at atmospheric pressure. If the tunnel became depressurized it would only reduce the pressure differential in the pod. Of course they'd all be liquefied in a crash at the proposed speeds...
He couldn't even stand there without being pushed off and it looks like he had regular shoes rather than clip in ones. I don't think different tires would be any different. Probably a nice slick layer of algae on there.
Re: Tipping points
The Clathrate gun hypothesis scares me big time. Probably because in this older science fiction novel the aliens were going to blow up part of the ocean floor to create the hot atmosphere they needed.
Oatmeal is predictable, pretty healthy depending on your toppings, and filling. It is not overly exciting and doesn't cause much emotional response. You still should to eat more than oatmeal, though. Quality, but diversity too. The Economist has had a reliable capital bias since its inception (it's so old you can read them hand wringing for what the end of American slavery is going to do to business). Doesn't mean their stuff is bad. You probably do consume more than oatmeal and I don't mean to paint you as univerous (did I make that up? moniverous?) but I thought I'd put this message out there.
LOL I'm sure the depiction of what someone could look like after years of working from home, created/paid for by a work furniture company, is totally accurate.
I mean, who invented the weekend? There's no real reason we couldn't all be working every day besides, you know, the misery and suicides and stuff (minor quibbles). If there's one thing I'll thank (western? Abrahamic?) religion for, it's an official day off work. Guess the evolution of some of that culture is how we ended up with all this other shit so maybe I'm a little mixed.
Did they have weekends or official off days in China and other eastern cultures before globalization/internationalization? Guess not. China began the two-day Saturday–Sunday weekend on May 1, 1995
Other interesting things there: Ancient Romans had 1 out of 9 days as a market day that at least kids were out of school for, and the French Revolutionary Calendar had 1 of their 10 day weeks off. The French sure have changed! I envy their dedication to not working every minute of their lives.
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I was thinking halfway through, "man I'm good if you just want to weigh it..." but the counting out time lapse did add something.
The one with rice I like was for exponential increases in size. Story: guy goes to the ruler of the kingdom and gets the ruler to agree to give him 1 grain of rice on the first square chess board, doubling every square so then two on the next, four on the next and so on. Runs the kingdom out of rice before he gets to the end of the chess board.
Another good one for the 1000x scaling is time. People seem to be able to grasp time magnitudes better than money. 1 million seconds is 12 days. 1 billion seconds is 32 years. 1 Trillion seconds is 31,688 years.